Gardner, Percy, 1846-1937 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 159
THE PROGRESS OF SCULPTURE 137 IX interpreted as meaning that it was the great merit of Poly- cleitus to have invented a plan whereby the main weight of the body was thrown on one leg. This invention, however, is by no means peculiar to the school of Polycleitus. Uno crure insistere means rather to … head to groin is greatly curved, Fig 30 _ Diadumenus, Attic, so that the figures seem even to lounge; (3) that the tree-trunk, or other support necessary to a figure in marble, is worked in as part of the group. These facts give to most of the Praxitelean statues in our museums a certain family…
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